Profile
The University of Iowa Museum of Art facilitates the meaningful and significant experience of works of art. It seeks to engage its public in understanding the nature of art as an aesthetic inquiry into reality and the study of art's history in its cultural context. These activities are performed as part of the University of Iowa's mission of education and research in service to the people of Iowa.
The University of Iowa Museum of Art, established in 1969, has one of the top university art collections in the country. Approximately 12,400 objects constitute diverse collections that include paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, photographs, ceramics, textiles, jade, and silver. The Elliott Collection includes paintings by Braque, De Chirico, Kandinsky, Léger, Marc, Matisse, Picasso, and Vlaminck, among others. The Stanley Collection of African Art is part of one of the most significant collections of African art in the country which today numbers almost 2,000 objects. Other significant areas of the collections include nearly 5,300 prints spanning the history of Western printmaking, several hundred ceramics (primarily American studio ceramics), Pre-Columbian objects as well as small but superb groups of ancient Etruscan and Roman art, and Native American ledger drawings. Two of the most well-known works in the collections were given to the Museum by the School of Art and Art History: Max Beckmann 's triptych, Karneval, purchased by the faculty in 1946, and Jackson Pollock 's Mural, painted in 1943 for Peggy Guggenheim which she gave to the School in 1951.
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Contact Information
University of Iowa Museum of Art
150 North Riverside Drive
IA 52242 Iowa City (USA)
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